In this paper, we proceed to a contrastive phraseological analysis of some compound nouns containing the French word tourisme or its Italian equivalent turismo and dealing with health and wellness. The aim of this research is to find which of these compound nouns is the most suitable to describe the tourism sector including thermalism, thalassotherapy and climatotherapy in both languages. After searching for these compound nouns in dictionaries, encyclopaedias, press and on Web pages, we have compared them syntactically and semantically to establish their degree of equivalence. This comparison done, we explain the reasons of our final choices.